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present GMD statistical tools that replace variance with the GMD and its variants. These new GMD based tools are most justified whenever the researcher cannot conveniently assume a normal distribution of variables under study and used common statistical tools as analysis of correlation, analysis of
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Parkinson's disease. Movement disorders: official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 21(9),
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Inzelberg, R., P. Nisipeanu, J. M. Rabey, E. Orlov, T. Catz, S. Kippervasser, E. Schechtman, and A. D. Korczyn. "Double-blind comparison of cabergoline and bromocriptine in
Parkinson's disease patients with motor fluctuations." Neurology 47, no. 3 (1996):
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in 1912 as an alternative measure of variability, the GMD and its variants (such as the Gini coefficient or the concentration ratio) have been in widespread use in the studies of the income distribution. In their book, Prof. Edna
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5. Shinar, D., Schechtman, E., & Compton, R. (2001). Self-reports of safe driving behaviors in relationship to sex, age, education and income in the US adult driving population. Accident
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Shinar, D., Schechtman, E., & Compton, R. (2001). Self-reports of safe driving behaviors in relationship to sex, age, education and income in the US adult driving population. Accident
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4. Paz-Elizur, T., Krupsky, M., Blumenstein, S., Elinger, D., Schechtman, E., & Livneh, Z. (2003). DNA repair activity for oxidative damage and risk of lung cancer. Journal of the
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Inzelberg, R., Carasso, R. L., Schechtman, E., & Nisipeanu, P. (2000). A comparison of dopamine agonists and catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitors in
Parkinson's disease. Clinical neuropharmacology, 23(5),
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Schechtman, E., Yitzhaki, S., & Artsev, Y. (2008). Who does not respond in the household expenditure survey: An exercise in extended Gini regressions. Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 26(3),
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Schechtman, E., Shinar, D., & Compton, R. C. (1999). The relationship between drinking habits and safe driving behaviors. Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour, 2(1), 15-26.
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in 1980, under the supervision of Douglas Wolfe, on the topic: “A Nonparametric Test for the Changepoint Problem”. In 1996, she joined the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,
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Musicant, O., Bar-Gera, H., & Schechtman, E. (2010). Electronic records of undesirable driving events. Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour, 13(2), 71-79.
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Inzelberg, R., Schechtman, E., & Nisipeanu, P. (2003). Cabergoline, pramipexole and ropinirole used as monotherapy in early Parkinson’s disease. Drugs & Aging, 20(11), 847-855.
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Shinar, D., & Schechtman, E. (2005). Drug identification performance on the basis of observable signs and symptoms. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 37(5), 843-851.
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Wolfe, D. A., & Schechtman, E. (1984). Nonparametric statistical procedures for the changepoint problem. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 9(3), 389-396.
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Wolfe, D. A., & Schechtman, E. (1984). Nonparametric statistical procedures for the changepoint problem. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 9(3), 389-396.
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Eubank, R., Schechtman, E., & Yitzhaki, S. (1993). A test for second order stochastic dominance. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 22(7), 1893-1905.
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Schechtman’s scientific work combines theoretical research in statistical methodology with applied research. In applied statistics, her research focuses mainly on
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Schechtman, E. (1982). A nonparametric test for detecting changes in location. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 11(13), 1475-1482.
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Schechtman, E. (1982). A nonparametric test for detecting changes in location. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 11(13), 1475-1482.
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Inzelberg, R., Schechtman, E., & Paleacu, D. (2002). Onset age of Parkinson disease. American journal of medical genetics, 111(4), 459-460.
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Shinar, D., & Schechtman, E. (2002). Headway feedback improves intervehicular distance: A field study. Human Factors, 44(3), 474-481.
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Schechtman, E., & Sherman, M. (2007). The two-sample t-test with a known ratio of variances. Statistical Methodology, 4(4), 508-514.
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Ka, Ndéné; Mussard, Stéphane (June 2015). "Book Review of The Gini Methodology: A Primer on a Statistical Methodology".
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Yitzhaki, S., & Schechtman, E. (2005). The properties of the extended Gini measures of variability and inequality.
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